Which Chipmunk is that?

[Top West 50]

Discorde: yes he was and what a great sense of humour he had! Being cold, he drummed his feet on the Chipmunk floor. Tony Trudgett, his student, said, "what's that noise?" "Oh, it's just the oil pump - it's quite noisy in this aircraft." So, for the next few sorties, Steve drummed his feet on the floor and the oil pump kept going for several subsequent sorties. One day, he waited for a quiet moment at the top of a loop and stopped drumming. "Oil pump gone, engine failure, mayday, mayday, mayday," said Tony!

[Discorde]

A misty December morning, Church Fenton, 1968 . . .

[Dora-9]

Lovely photo, Discorde...

I think this is Yorkshire UAS. "B" is WG468.

[Discorde]

It was still Leeds UAS in Dec ‘68, Dora-9, which was the month I left. I believe it became YUAS the following year.

[Dora-9]

You beat me to the draw, Discorde. You're correct, Yorkshire UAS formed by combining Leeds and Hull UAS' on 15.3.1969, so it is a Leeds UAS line up. But there's an oddity here; "C" is WG478 (mine!) and her Record of Service card shows her being issued to Yorkshire UAS in June 1968! A typo I suspect.